On Wednesday, February 3, 1999 at 9:08:27 am VUT,
"James M Cheshire" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
> that stuff
>that looks like calcareous fine lace, whatever it is.
 
It's one or more colonies of Bryozoa, also called (misleadingly) lace coral.
 Bryozoans aren't related to corals, they're more closely related to
brachiopods.  Bizarre world, is it not?
 
Bronwen
 
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